Ebenezer Olmstead (abt. 1748 - 1801)

Born about 1748 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Esther (Ingersoll) Olmstead — married 17 Jan 1779 in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Descendants

Died 19 Jul 1801 at about age 53 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Lieutenant Ebenezer Olmstead served with 5th Connecticut Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Ebenezer Olmstead is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A086276.

War Record of Ebenezer Olmstead from a declaration made by Esther Olmstead on the 11th day of August, 1838, when applying for the benefit of the Act of Congress of July 4, 1836, in favor of the Widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution stated "That She is the widow of Ebenezer Olmstead who enlisted as Sergeant in the company of Captain Mead, in Col. Waterbury's Regiment in the Spring of the year 1775, on which occasion he marched immediately to the North against Ticonderoga--that in the ensuing year he served as Ensign in the company of Captain Gamaliel Northrop, and in the year following, namely, 1777, he served as Lieutenant in the Connecticut line in Col. Philip B. Bradley's Regiment; that at the period of his entering the service in 1775 said Ebenezer Olmstead resided in Ridgefield n the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, that he entered as a volunteer as a Sergeant and acted as clerk of the Company; that during his continuance in the service of his Country, in addition to the affair of Ticonderoga above stated, he fought in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Ridgefield and Germantown. At Germantown he was wounded; that he was encamped with the Army at Valley Forge, and that in the month of January, 1779, he lay encamped with that part of the army which lay at Redding, Conn., distant from Ridgefield where the declarant then resided about 8 miles; that said Olmstead came over from the army at Redding and was married to this declarant on Sunday, on the 17th day of January aforesaid, and returned back to the army on the following morning and continued to serve in the army until the following Spring, when he returned to Ridgefield, and there continued to resided and keep house until his death which occurred in 1801, turning out on every alarm which took place. Declarant cannot positively swear as to the date of said Olmstead's resigning his commission. Declarant further states that she is the daughter of the Rev. Jonathan Ingersoll, who was mnister at Ridgefield for 37 years; that her bro. Jonathan Ingersoll was Lt. Gov. of the State of Conn."^[1]

Ebenezer's cousin, [[Olmsted-220|Col. David Olmsted] married his wife's sister Abigail Ingersoll.

Esther Ingersoll and her husband Ebenezer Olmstead are named in the DAR Patriot Index re her father's patriotism during the American Revolution ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Olmsted & Ward: Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America, 1912, p. 209-10.
2. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 24 Nov 2020), "Record of Jonathan Ingersoll", Ancestor # A060093.

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed July 18, 2016), "Record of Ebenezer Olmstead", Ancestor # A086276.
• 1912 genealogy "Olmsted Family in America"; p. 197, 209, #4111.
• Olmste(a)d files of Walt Steesy
• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3Q-C3D3-9?cc=2546162&wc=WD6Q-RM3%3A1588792203 : 24 January 2018), Connecticut > image 84 of 977; citing various published state rosters, United States.
• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3Q-C3FD-V?cc=2546162&wc=WD6Q-RM3%3A1588792203 : 24 January 2018), Connecticut > image 211 of 977; citing various published state rosters, United States.